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March 29, 2005
upcoming.org
earlier today Jim Home pointed me to upcoming.org, a public events server. i'd heard of it before but hadn't motivated to look at it. i guess the universe finally decided it was the appropriate time, because just yesterday the site got a bunch of new features that really make it exciting, such as tagging, a REST-style API, and reminders via email and SMS.
i've subscribed iCal to "my upcoming events" at upcoming, refreshing it hourly, and i've subscribed to several of the metros' RSS feeds (San Francisco, SF Bay Area, SF East Bay, Oakland, Berkeley). when a new event is posted, i see it in NetNewsWire. if i want to go to it, i hit the right arrow and it opens upcoming. i mark that i'm going to the event, and within an hour, it's in iCal. very very cool stuff.
Jon Udell had some comments about upcoming a week or so ago. the service does seem to be sparsely populated in certain areas, but i'm lucky that SF itself is booming. and if each of my friends entered one event a month, it would be bursting at the seams. and i'd be able to subscribe to "my friends' events" in iCal or RSS as well, which would give us that big group calendar we've wanted for so long.
i was just saying a couple days ago that i wish SFist would follow Gothamist's lead and publish comprehensive show listings every week (or at least more often than they do now). i bet an integration with upcoming.org using its API would make such a thing much more likely.
Posted by bcm at March 29, 2005 07:04 PM
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